Kim Jong-un portrayed as a pig and "nuke lover" in hacked Flickr account.

A Twitter and Flickr account associated with a North Korean news agency has been taken over by hackers claiming to be from the hacktivist collective Anonymous. Instead of pro-North Korea propaganda, the accounts are now criticizing North Korea and its leader Kim Jong-un for building nuclear weapons. The hackers controlling the Twitter account also claimed to have hacked the news agency's website and other North Korean websites, which appear to be offline.

The Twitter and Flickr accounts represent Uriminzokkiri (meaning "Our Nation"), a North Korean news and propaganda site. When Uriminzokkiri established a Twitter account in 2010, the IDG News Service described the news site as "the closest thing North Korea has to an official home page" and "one of the few Web sites believed to be run from the secretive nation."

The Twitter page, with 14,000 followers, switched from posting in Korean to English this morning. The profile picture was changed to an illustration of two dancers wearing Guy Fawkes masks. The hackers of the Flickr account are posting various pro-Anonymous and anti-North Korea pictures. One depicts Kim Jong-un with pig ears and a Mickey Mouse picture on his chest and says he is "threatening world peace with ICBMs and Nuclear weapons."

The Twitter and Flickr hacks come several days after hackers purportedly affiliated with Anonymous targeted Uriminzokkiri and claimed to have stolen 15,000 hashed passwords. A Washington Post article from this morning said Anonymous launched distributed denial of service attacks against several state-run North Korean websites, but that claims Anonymous hacked into North Korea's intranet appear unfounded.

Tensions have risen between North Korea and South Korea in recent days, with North Korea also making threats against the US. "US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Wednesday that the North Korean threats to Guam, Hawaii, and the US mainland have to be taken seriously," CNN reported.

UPDATE: Uriminzokkiri seems to have taken back control of its Flickr page, but the Twitter account is still showing the Anonymous posts.

You do realize that NK is going to blame the USA, and indeed the entire West, for this, no matter how much we tell them it wasn't our government's idea?

We will just send back Dennis Rodman to smooth things over again.

Actually, I think it was Rodman who pissed off Kim Jong Un in the first place. Things were not all that tense prior to his visit a couple weeks ago. Now all of a sudden there are N Korean missiles* aimed at Hawaii, the West Coast, and Austin Texas!

My concern is that the people who were previously in charge of these accounts will somehow be punished. Sure, they're probably party members and semi-powerful, but Anonymous tends to not think about who their actions affect.

Since I'm certain that these feeds are directed to the outside world and not accessible within korea, a much more useful (and I'm sure, more difficult) hack would be to run anti-DPRK propaganda on their internal TV and radio networks. Try to get a 30-second clip of what South Korea looks like, or even just one of those shots from space where there's the hard cutoff in lights between the SK/NK border.

On one hand it's great that anonymous found themselves another righteous hack, on the other North Korea probably relishes the international attention. Their threats and ridiculous propaganda videos are like when a child makes trouble just to get noticed.

The Twitter page, with 14,000 followers, switched from posting in North Korean to English this morning.

It's just Korean. North Korea and South Korea don't have separate languages.

I don't speak korean, but some of my korean-speaking friends have said that they have trouble understanding North Korean because it's basically forked into a dialect due to the radical isolation and different environment.

It kinda made sense to me because your language is used to describe your world, if your world is entirely dissimilar to another person then your languages are unlikely to independently continue along the same path even if you started with the same language.

Anonymous really is an enigma to me. Half their antics makes me cringe, and the other half I can't help but root for them on.

So, considering the situation the news currently portrays, does anyone think this is helping? To me this seems more like antics, to which there could be repercussions to individuals other than Anon.

Such as the site admins?

Such as causing North Korea to regard it as a cyber-attack and act of war and launching their already staged and threatened attack on South Korea, Europe, the Middle East, and the U.S. and which has already made threatening attack advances towards Okinawa (which is why we deployed a missile defense system there recently)?

Oh great, yeah smart move there AnonyIdiots. Yeah that's right, further aggravate an unstable country leader with nuclear weapons that has already declared a state of war (again) exists and has cut off the last lines of communication with other country's and is threatening to use his nuclear weapons which can reach into Europe and the Middle east and even Alaska and is already staging his military for attack and only needs the slightest hint of excuse like what could be called a cyber-based attack like you have now conducted. Smart move you fucking stupid moronic idiots, you deserve to have your asses dragged out back and kicked until there is nothing left and if this does push North Korea over the edge you deserve to be hunted down like dogs and shot and just about every military force and government agency (not just the U.S. either) will be hunting down anyone who even thinks they want to be AnonyIdiots.

NK is definitely a strange bird, but I find it highly unlikely that the Northwestern Boundary Dispute will be dethroned as the lamest historical reason for conflict by a hacked twitter account.

On a side note, did you know that the password "noreallyilovekimjonguhn" is the ultimate defense against account compromise? I heard it on NK news.

Anonymous really is an enigma to me. Half their antics makes me cringe, and the other half I can't help but root for them on.

So, considering the situation the news currently portrays, does anyone think this is helping? To me this seems more like antics, to which there could be repercussions to individuals other than Anon.

Such as the site admins?

Just surmising, as I don't know a large amount, but think of the cliché abusive parent that has a bad day at work. Or, perhaps he could use it to further internal propaganda, showing how the 'West' has no respect for their nation. As most things go, when someone snaps, it's usually a conglomeration of things, rather than a single even, and this only adds.

If this were psyops, meant to dissuade his base, I could understand. But it's a jab meant to provoke.

Anonymous really is an enigma to me. Half their antics makes me cringe, and the other half I can't help but root for them on.

So, considering the situation the news currently portrays, does anyone think this is helping? To me this seems more like antics, to which there could be repercussions to individuals other than Anon.

Such as the site admins?

Such as causing North Korea to regard it as a cyber-attack and act of war and launching their already staged and threatened attack?

...who cares? They won't do it. They do this same thing every year at this time. Un just hasn't had to do this before, so he's making a "big name" for himself.

They won't? Whew! Glad we have your assurances. Yeah, they posture frequently, but this time its different. The other times their missiles weren't spun up and ready, their military did not make specific attack advances towards other areas, they did not cut off the final lines of communication, and they did not stage to all forward areas like they have now. But that's OK, we have your assurances it won't happen.

Not saying it will, but this time is not like the other times. But that's OK, we have your assurances.

Oh great, yeah smart move there AnonyIdiots. Yeah that's right, further aggravate an unstable country leader with nuclear weapons that has already declared a state of war (again) exists and has cut off the last lines of communication with other country's and is threatening to use his nuclear weapons which can reach into Europe and the Middle east and even Alaska and is already staging his military for attack and only needs the slightest hint of excuse like what could be called a cyber-based attack like you have now conducted. Smart move you fucking stupid moronic idiots, you deserve to have your asses dragged out back and kicked until there is nothing left and if this does push North Korea over the edge you deserve to be hunted down like dogs and shot and just about every military force and government agency (not just the U.S. either) will be hunting down anyone who even thinks they want to be AnonyIdiots.

So what should we do? Just turn a blind eye and hope that it all blows over? Why don't we just lift sanctions on them too, since that probably provokes them a little more than this? Let's ban people from writing anti-NK books and articles against them too. Because that might provoke them as well. Maybe we should not let people criticize Dennis Rodman so openly because now he is Un's friend and that might prove them. Let's send back all the NK defectors, just to keep them happy while we tremble in our boots.

When the NK attacks, it will be because they've decided to attack based on their doctrine, their ideology, and their agenda.... not because someone hacked their twitter account.

Oh great, yeah smart move there AnonyIdiots. Yeah that's right, further aggravate an unstable country leader with nuclear weapons that has already declared a state of war (again) exists and has cut off the last lines of communication with other country's and is threatening to use his nuclear weapons which can reach into Europe and the Middle east and even Alaska and is already staging his military for attack and only needs the slightest hint of excuse like what could be called a cyber-based attack like you have now conducted. Smart move you fucking stupid moronic idiots, you deserve to have your asses dragged out back and kicked until there is nothing left and if this does push North Korea over the edge you deserve to be hunted down like dogs and shot and just about every military force and government agency (not just the U.S. either) will be hunting down anyone who even thinks they want to be AnonyIdiots.

Anonymous really is an enigma to me. Half their antics makes me cringe, and the other half I can't help but root for them on.

So, considering the situation the news currently portrays, does anyone think this is helping? To me this seems more like antics, to which there could be repercussions to individuals other than Anon.

Such as the site admins?

Such as causing North Korea to regard it as a cyber-attack and act of war and launching their already staged and threatened attack?

...who cares? They won't do it. They do this same thing every year at this time. Un just hasn't had to do this before, so he's making a "big name" for himself.

They won't? Whew! Glad we have your assurances. Yeah, they posture frequently, but this time its different. The other times their missiles weren't spun up and ready, their military did not make specific attack advances towards other areas, they did not cut off the final lines of communication, and they did not stage to all forward areas like they have now. But that's OK, we have your assurances it won't happen.

Not saying it will, but this time is not like the other times. But that's OK, we have your assurances.

I was there (like literally, there) in the Summer of 1997 when this little squirt's Dad (then relatively new in the position himself) actually fired an ICBM (a "test fire" according to DPRK) at the northern coast of Japan.

So yes, this is like other times. Lots of them.

I'm not saying you shouldn't worry if that's your thing; I'm just saying your energy could be appointed elsewhere with more tangible benefit to you.